[PRCo] Transit Happenings (Not Necessarily PRCo)

[Dwight Long]

Fred

It was cut back from San Bernardino to Covina, with most trips ending at Baldwin Park, on 2 November 1941.  During WW II there were numerous special runs made to SB for military personnel. Also during events at the Fairgrounds in Pomona specials were routinely run to that point.  I’m not sure when the last pax special ran into SB;  obviously some time before the wire was pulled in the early 50s, AIR.

The RPO you cited was the very last trolley RPO;  that of the Indiana Railroad between New Castle and Ft. Wayne was second last—it went out in 1941.

Dwight

From: Fred Schneider 
Sent: Wednesday, 09 July, 2014 12:45
To: Western PA Trolley discussion 
Subject: Re: [PRCo] Transit Happenings (Not Necessarily PRCo)
It would be nice to have the passenger numbers for that line, Dennis, but it seems like it was designed to fail like heritage trolley lines in places like Little Rock, Memphis, Tampa, Galveston…..

Opened in 1914.   Five years later, when Dwight Eisenhower crossed the country in a military convoy to push for better roads, it was noted that the best highways outside the east were in California.   By 1924 riding was turning down because we were in our automobiles.  So the interurban to San Berdoo had ten good years or perhaps fewer than that.   

Sometime in the 1930s the passenger service on the eastern end of the line ended but an RPO continued until 1950.

Track is still there, however.   The every-other-day Amtrak Sunset Limited uses the old PE line out of LA.   It's the line in the middle of the freeway.





On Jul 9, 2014, at 6:30 AM, DF Cramer wrote:

> More not PRCo--from sunny Southern California. They always seem to know how to throw a good party.
> http://www.sbsun.com/general-news/20140707/the-great-silver-spike-celebration-marked-a-new-link-with-la
> 
> Dennis F. Cramer 
> http://home.windstream.net/dfc1/





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